Show r P t tt 4 10 By Jock Jones Chief For several years now we have been deluged with a stupendous amount of propaganda extolling the virtues and urgent need of gun control laws Actually we already have many gun control laws on the books For example any handgun sale hasto hasto has hasto to be registered which in theory makes it possible to trace and identify all the owners of a particular gun back to the store that originally sold it Its It's against the law to carry a concealed or a fully loaded weapon Its It's against the law to possess many different types of weapons weapons sawed sawed off shotguns fully automatic weapons and most bore big-bore guns like antitank antitank anti anti- tank guns and mortars In other words the only type weapons that are presently legal are common side-arms side rifles and shotguns You cant can't carry them concealed or loaded which means you can only use them for sport at a firing range or for hunting hunting anything anything else is illegal So how come 67 percent of the murders last year involved guns So how come armed robbery has increased 46 percent since 1968 So how come terrorists and revolutionaries have extensive arsenals of fully automatic and bore big-bore weapons So how come every two-bit two thug on the street knows you dont don't use a piece that's registered in your name You steal one or buy one from a fence Ill I'll tell you how come Gun control legislation is a farce It hasn't reduced crime it isn't reducing crime and it wont won't reduce crime It wont won't reduce crime because guns dont don't commit crimes People do It doesn't matter what method is used a crime is a crime and they are committed by people not weapons Legislating against the method is nothing more than treating a symptom If crime will be reduced by treating symptoms then lets let's outlaw all pens and pencils because they are the means by which bad checks are written If we want to prevent or reduce crime then lets let's get back to some old-fashioned old morality Lets Let's start teaching discipline and respect in our schools Lets Let's stop farming out our parental responsibilities Lets Let's admit that without the family our society is in trouble And lets let's start treating criminals like criminals instead of playing pat-a-cake pat with them Lets Let's stop blaming guns for crime and admit that crimes are committed by people |